Submitted by william.teem@gm... on Tue, 2013-07-09 14:58
John Clifford Pemberton grew up in Pennsylvania. After attending West Point, he served in the U.S. Army in posts all over the country. While serving at Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia, he met and later married Martha Thompson, the daughter of a prominent Norfolk shipping family. Historians believe it was this marriage that caused Pemberton to resign his commission and join the Confederate Army a week after Virginia seceded from the Union. On October 1, 1862, General Pemberton was given command of the District of Mississippi and Eastern Louisiana.
Chad M. Jewett is a doctoral candidate in English at the University of Connecticut. Chad's work focuses on twentieth century African American and Southern literature and has appeared in the Southern Literary Journal and is forthcoming in The African American Review, The Faulkner Journal, and the Mississippi Quarterly.
Julie Beth Napolin is Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at The New School. In 2013-2014 she was an Associate Director of Digital Yoknapatawpha. Her book, The Fact of Resonance: Modernist Acoustics and Narrative Form (Fordham UP 2020), reads the work of Faulkner within the soundscape of global modernism and was shortlisted for the 2021 Memory Studies Association First Book Award. She is the Co-President of the William Faulkner Society and President of the New School chapter of the AAUP.
Cheryl Lester is Associate Professor Emerita of English and American Studies at the University of Kansas, where she taught American literature and theory courses and held appointments as Graduate Director and Chair of the American Studies Department. She held an NEH fellowship, was a visiting professor in Senegal, Hong Kong, and Beijing, and was the recipient of numerous teaching awards.
